I am almost too tired of the whole issue to write any more words about it My entire career in journalism I have periodically been forced to compose some outraged paragraphs about the latest massacre or ldquo normal rdquo gun violence in Chicago Baltimore Milwaukee Camden you name it how m

Our friends at The Jesuit Post have published two reflections on the tragedy in Newtown Connecticut The first is from Sam Sawyer S J This afternoon the news began to break about the horrific school shooting in Newtown Connecticut And before we even knew how many had been shot or the identity

Where were you God We are crushed with grief God We cannot bear to think of so many people killed We cannot bear to think of children being killed It is unthinkable to us the worst tragedy Children Where were you God How could you let this happen Why is your world like this We are sad and an

There’s a classic bit of advice for actors: Walk into the audition thinking of yourself as the solution to the director’s problem; be that solution and you’ve got the part. Closing the deal is a steeper challenge for the cutthroat salesmen in David Mamet’s 1983 masterpiece Gl

Statement of Msgr Jerald A Doyle Administrator Diocese of BridgeportNewtown School ShootingsOn behalf of the Diocese of Bridgeport we offer our prayers and our collective sense of grief shock and loss after the tragic school shootings in Newtown Msgr Robert Weiss Pastor of St Rose of Lima P

Hobbits, as everyone now knows, are little people, with lackadaisical ways and furry feet.

Never has a world leader been so financially dependent on the rest of the world.

I have seen Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy more times than I can count, but have not read J.R.R. Tolkien’s book.  And, although I read The Hobbit when I was in middle school, I don’t remember much about it.  Therefore, in considering the merits of Jackson&

It had once been a soccer field can it become one again Port-au-Prince already was bereft of areas where children might go to kick a soccer ball play basketball or otherwise run around freely a little After the earthquake pretty much any open space was quickly converted into emergency tent citie

At the University of Notre Dame gay and lesbian students will soon have a campus-wide organization responding to their needs while the Catholic University of America announced yesterday it would not accept student-driven drive for such a group Notre Dame following a months-long review process an

They were a middle class family with middle-sized dreams and cares And of course their own holiday traditions One Christmas custom enjoyed by all six of the Martin daughters in their childhoods was leaving out their shoes to be filled with holiday treats The world has come to know the youngest

Numbers from the 2011 census in the United Kingdom show that a majority 59 identify as Christian and 25 claim no religion nbsp Just 10 years ago 73 said they were Christian and only 14 reported having no religion From the BBC nbsp A spokesman for the Catholic Bishops Conference of E

This morning the Holy Father began his personal tweeting under the handle Pontifex nbsp The word is from one of the traditional titles in Latin of the pope Pontifex Maximus meaning more or less Great Bridge Builder nbsp Together the first three papal tweets read Dear friends I am ple

It is that time of year Television will show probably twice around Christmas and once on Christmas Eve Frank Capra s now classic film It s a Wonderful Life When it first appeared in late 1946 the film was not a best-selling standout It actually initially lost money Now it is regard

ldquo It was terrible just terrible rdquo says Delille Antione He rsquo s speaking about his experience during the earthquake on January 10 2010 in Port-au-Prince ldquo I really don rsquo t want to talk about it I don 39 t want to think about it again rdquo And unlike a lot of people ove

Today on a hillside overlooking Port-au-Prince I met the boy who has no name Scratch that I rsquo m sure he has a name I just was unable to find it out He began following me soon after I arrived at a camp in the city rsquo s village of Carradeux a place where hundreds of families have lived si

The General Social Survey a comprehensive questionnaire perennially studying the habits and demographics of Americans asks participants about their views on the afterlife From Chicago Magazine in 1983 and 1984 the people running the GSS decided to ask people about their visions of the afterlif

You never know what you’re going to get during the dinner table family roundup of the day’s events. Our kindergartner recently told us: “The king and queen of England used to be really mean. They made everybody go to one church. They wouldn’t let people go to other churches.

According to the Syrian novelist Dima Wannous, the seed of Syria’s Arab Spring revolt was planted in Damascus in February 2011. A policeman insulted a shop owner, and a crowd of young workers and traders formed chanting, “The Syrian people cannot be humiliated.” The interior minist

Growing up Protestant and Republican in Kansas, I began life as a political conservative. But when I was in college, John F. Kennedy changed that. He and Pope John XXIII opened the door to the Catholic Church for me, and for most of my adult life I considered myself a Catholic political liberal. I a